Loveland Photo Society to hear about travel photography

Rodney Stewart to speak on The beautiful people of Cuba, Africa and the Dominican Republic

By Bill Shanahan

For the Reporter-Herald

Posted:
02/01/2018 06:21:30 PM MST

Rodney Stewart will present a program, "The beautiful people of Cuba, Africa and the Dominican Republic," for the Loveland Photographic Society on Monday, Feb. 12.

Stewart will show some of his favorite photographs of people and memories from his travels over the past couple of years.

There will be an open discussion of how he picks out the subject, composes the image quickly and gets the shot.

Questions and discussion are welcomed as the audience will learn how to photograph people in faraway lands or even in the backyard.

Stewart has been traveling the world photographing people, places and things for 27 years.

He has been the senior photographer and supervisor of the digital photography department at Group Publishing Inc. for the past 15 years.

He is responsible for creating and managing photo assets for this multi-million-dollar company that publishes a very diverse range of products.

He creates images for everything from physical product content and magazine stories to online marketing for use across all digital platforms.

Their products, along with his images, are distributed worldwide and seen by millions of people nationally and internationally.

Doing 350-plus shoots a year has generated a stock photo library for the company of nearly 750,000 images, which Stewart also supervises.

Before his current role, Stewart trained and became experienced to a master level in all areas of commercial photography. This includes high-end technical product images and beautifully lit food photography, as well as studio and location corporate portraiture.

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But his greatest passion is candid portraits of people of all ages in all their natural environments. He continues to teach beginner and advanced photography and Photoshop to hundreds of people and has hired and trained over 35 interns.

It is clear that Stewart really enjoys and appreciates travel and especially the people and faces he captures on his adventures. In fact, he encourages everyone to take more images of friends and families and to use the camera to capture the people and places they experience in our travels.

The Loveland Photographic Society meeting will take place on Monday, Feb. 12, at Group Publishing, 1515 Cascade Ave., Loveland.

The club meeting is open to the public and begins at 6:15 p.m. It will begin with social time that is followed by a brief business meeting, and the monthly photo competition featuring work by local LPS photographers. The speaker will start at 7 p.m.